{"id":9847,"date":"2013-08-14T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2013-08-15T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T21:22:02","slug":"extra-extra-read-all-about-it-2013-08-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=9847","title":{"rendered":"Extra! Extra! Read All About It! &#8211; 2013.08.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like the current commercial with the camel so much&#8230; that I&#8217;m moving Extra! Extra! to Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=9792\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9792\" alt=\"camel copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/camel-copy.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/camel-copy.jpg 491w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/camel-copy-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/camel-copy-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/camel-copy-400x392.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, in the last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The last breakfast sandwich of #2013eateachsandwich was eaten and written about&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=9466\" target=\"_blank\">Egg &amp; Cheddar<\/a>&#8230; kinda simple and bland, not bad though<\/li>\n<li>In anticipation of the 2013 Epcot International Food &amp; Wine Festival, I revisited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=9700\" target=\"_blank\">Tequila Lunch<\/a> at La Hacienda (update: I was able to get reservations for the two dates that we wanted, yay!)&#8230; over the last two years, this has become one of our favorite events; the food is good, the tequilas are good, and the service &amp; staff are on top of their game for these events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_4500\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=4500\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4500\" alt=\"Fourth Course: Meringue with fruit, sweet cream, and cajeta caramel sauce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tequila-Lunch-Mexico-2012-21.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tequila-Lunch-Mexico-2012-21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tequila-Lunch-Mexico-2012-21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tequila-Lunch-Mexico-2012-21-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tequila-Lunch-Mexico-2012-21-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dessert Course from 2012 Tequila Lunch: Meringue with fruit, sweet cream, and cajeta caramel sauce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the ether&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eating Around WDW showcased some new merchandise at the UK Pavilion&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/eatingaroundwdw.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/30\/knock-knock-whos-there\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Who<\/a>! Now, it&#8217;s not that we&#8217;re Dr Who fans&#8230; It&#8217;s that Asta is a Dr Who fan, so much so that nora knitted him a scarf, like the one Tom Baker wore \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_9900\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=9900\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9900\" alt=\"Dr Who Scarf... 11&quot; wide and 12' long\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Apr-2-Completed-Dr-Who-Scarf-made-for-Asta.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Apr-2-Completed-Dr-Who-Scarf-made-for-Asta.jpg 478w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Apr-2-Completed-Dr-Who-Scarf-made-for-Asta-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Apr-2-Completed-Dr-Who-Scarf-made-for-Asta-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Apr-2-Completed-Dr-Who-Scarf-made-for-Asta-400x535.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Who Scarf&#8230; 11&#8243; wide and 12&#8242; long<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Disney Blog (blogs.disney.com) usually has some interesting stories&#8230; lately two caught our eyes:<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.disney.com\/insider\/articles\/2013\/07\/30\/the-story-behind-the-story-of-frozen\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Story Behind The Story of Frozen<\/a> (you know, the animated movie in production at Disney) and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.disney.com\/insider\/trivia\/2013\/07\/27\/how-well-do-you-know-the-sword-in-the-stone\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Well Do You Know &#8220;The Sword in the Stone&#8221;? <\/a>(this was one of nora&#8217;s favorite movies growing up, in the years before VHS and DVD, she had to wait until it came on the World of Disney to watch it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_9901\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=9901\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9901\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9901\" class=\" wp-image-9901 \" alt=\"&quot;The Sword in The Stone&quot; from blogs.disney.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Sword-in-the-Stone.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Sword-in-the-Stone.png 1073w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Sword-in-the-Stone-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Sword-in-the-Stone-1024x755.png 1024w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Sword-in-the-Stone-150x110.png 150w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Sword-in-the-Stone-400x295.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Sword in The Stone&#8221; from blogs.disney.com<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>A new book from Marty Sklar &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/disneyparks.disney.go.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/interview-with-marty-sklar-disney-legend-and-author-of-new-book-dream-it-do-it-my-half-century-creating-disneys-magic-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dream It! Do It! My Half-Century Creating Disney&#8217;s Magic Kingdoms<\/a>&#8221; (definitely on nora&#8217;s wish list) is previewed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/parks.disney.go.com\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Parks Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Melissa from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperionpapers.com\" target=\"_blank\">hyperionpapers.com<\/a> provides a link to another Mickey Mouse short &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperionpapers.com\/2013\/08\/09\/mickey-mouse-in-panda-monium\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pandamonium<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; nora didn&#8217;t like this as much as some of the previous shorts<\/li>\n<li>Then there is news from the D23 Expo &#8211; and this doesn&#8217;t even scratch the surface (we joined D23 last year because of the 30th Anniversary of Epcot (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4801\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=5285\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and then we attended the D23 Magic and Merriment event during the holidays (lots of posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6666\" target=\"_blank\">archival presentation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6672\" target=\"_blank\">hospitality suite<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6725\" target=\"_blank\">dessert buffet at Epcot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6797\" target=\"_blank\">breakfast at Magic Kingdom<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6803\" target=\"_blank\">an evening at Disney Hollywood Studios<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6814\" target=\"_blank\">our final thoughts<\/a> &#8211; frankly, we were really disappointed at the events here at Walt Disney World, perhaps they do a better job at Disneyland (their own backyard))&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/disneyparks.disney.go.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/imagineer-tony-baxter-among-2013-disney-legends-honored-at-d23-expo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Baxter<\/a> is honored during the 2013 D23 Expo<\/li>\n<li>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyparks.disney.go.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/d23-expo-exclusive-leslie-iwerks-creating-documentary-about-walt-disney-imagineering\/\" target=\"_blank\">documentary<\/a>, from Leslie Iwerks, was previewed at the 2013 D23 Expo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re really looking forward to the Epcot Food &amp; Wine Festival&#8230; we were able to book all of the events that we wanted except for one (the Spirits Confidential on November 1st&#8230; all of the reserved seats were gone when nora called the reservation system). More on that in the next few days!<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to look at in two of our FlipBoard magazines<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flip.it\/514y6\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Adults Extra Walt Disney World Magic &#8211; 13.08.11<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flip.it\/v6l4t\" target=\"_blank\">Adults Extra WDW Magic &#8211; Our Favorite Things re: Epcot Food &amp; Wine Festival!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now! Bye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like the current commercial with the camel so much&#8230; that I&#8217;m moving Extra! Extra! to Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, in the last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> The last breakfast sandwich of #2013eateachsandwich was eaten and written about&#8230; Egg &amp; Cheddar&#8230; kinda simple and bland, not bad though In anticipation of the 2013 Epcot International Food &amp; Wine <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=9847\">Extra! Extra! Read All About It! &#8211; 2013.08.14<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[406,195,65,262,255,251,13,190,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013eateachsandwich-challenge","category-backstage-tours","category-christmas","category-d23-events","category-disney-extras","category-downtown-disney-fd","category-epcot-fd","category-epcot-food-wine-festival","category-food-and-drink","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9904,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}